Deuteronomy 7

Devote the Nations to Destruction

“^aWhen Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, ^bseven nations more numerous and stronger than you, 2 and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, ^athen you shall devote them to destruction. ^bYou shall cut no covenant with them ^cand show no favor to them. 3 Furthermore, ^ayou shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your ¹daughters to ²their sons, nor shall you take ³their daughters for your ⁴sons. 4 For ¹they will turn your ²sons away from ³following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and ^aHe will quickly destroy you. 5 But thus you shall do to them: ^ayou shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their ¹Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For you are ^aa holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be ^ba people for His ¹own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ²earth.
7 “^aYahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because Yahweh loved you and kept the ^aoath which He swore to your fathers, ^bYahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of ¹slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 You shall know therefore that Yahweh your God, ^aHe is God, ^bthe faithful God, ^cwho keeps ¹His covenant and ¹His lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who ^dlove Him and keep His commandments; 10 but ^arepays those who hate Him to ¹their faces, to make ²them perish; He will not delay ³with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. 11 Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Yahweh’s Covenant Blessings

12 “^aThen it will be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you ¹His covenant and ¹His lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers. 13 And He will ^alove you and bless you and ^bmultiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, ¹in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female ^abarren among you or among your cattle. 15 ^aAnd Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will give them to all who hate you. 16 And you shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God will give over to you; ^ayour eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^ba snare to you.
17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I ^adispossess them?’ 18 you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well ^aremember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 ^athe great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover, Yahweh your God will send ^athe hornet against them until those who remain and hide themselves from you perish. 21 You shall not dread ¹them, for ^aYahweh your God is in your midst, ^ba great and fearsome God. 22 ^aAnd Yahweh your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, lest the ¹wild beasts become too numerous for you. 23 ^aBut Yahweh your God will give them over before you and will ¹throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 ^aAnd He will give their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; ^bno man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods you are to ^aburn with fire; you shall ^bnot covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ^csnared by it, for it is an ^dabomination to Yahweh your God. 26 And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become devoted to ^adestruction like it; you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.

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